The intake of the archive in the arts is a significant trend of
contemporary artistic research. Forms, procedures, methods that
traditionally belong to the bureaucracy are filled with expressive
values assuming meanings that transcend their instrumental character.

The bureaucracy is a hierarchical form of the state that needs to practice first and foremost the construction of an archive.
According to Derrida (Mal d'archive, une impression freudienne, Paris,
1995), the etymology of the word comes from Archè, "command": the
archive is a "clearance" which presupposes a "guardian" means the
authority which holds hermeneutic power, and the bureaucracy is the
exercise of that power. The archive therefore is never neutral but
constitutes a containing the shape of which determines the quality of
the content. From this point of view the archive is a language to all
effects.

ROAMING wants to deal with the archive, focusing the attention its effects on identity.
The first effect of burocracy is the control of identity.The archive
underlying this control is a finite collection and indexing. The archive
of the bureaucracy is a tool for flattening identity because in his
role of linguistic system it names the being as a closed form.
Viceversa the archive, ideally, is a form being opened, as required by
Umberto Eco (The vertigo of the list, Milan, 2012), the form of the list
a place that "almost physically suggests the infinite." The bureaucracy making use of the archive at its foundation in fact denies its nature.

The meeting in Bucharest is built around this assumption, analyzing it
under three different view points: the experiences of denunciation of
the bureaucracy as a practice of control, those where the archive
becomes an instrument of identity reconstruction and those that reflect
on the web and the archive as liquid form.